Review: Typography
Slip sliding into history
About halfway through this long and highly detailed study of the life and work of…
Nostalgia for the Carnation Revolution
The exhibition ‘Freedom of Image’, which was spread throughout Porto between May and September 2014…
Prolific polymath
Pretty Pictures (Thames & Hudson, £42, $75) covers the astonishing body of work that the…
Stone love
Since the early 1960s Michael Twyman has contributed to the establishment and improvement of standards…
Thirty years before the masthead
This book is a lavishly illustrated summary of the three decades when Swiss typography journal…
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or planning to, from what…
Unravelling pages
Warren Lehrer is best known for French Fries (Visual Studies Workshop Press / EarSay Books…
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark
In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications of the…
On being well read
In this shifting digital world, countless websites, blogs and social networks provide instant information on…
The designer as programmer
‘Swiss’ is still a style. In the crudest terms, the style was, and is, Helvetica…